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Letters Patent N0. 75,253, datecl March 10, 1868.

IMPROVED MOP-HEAD.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY GONOERN:

Beil; known tha.t I, RICHARD W. ENGLISH, of Buflalo, in tl1e county of Erle, and in tl1e Stute of New York, have invented certa.in new anti useful Impro.vements in Mop-Heads; and do hereby decla.re thal: the following is a. full, clear, am]. exact description thereofreference beinghad to the accompanying draxvings' a.ncl to tho letters ofreference marked thereon, in which like lotters in the seveml figures represent simila.r parts.

The n a.t'ure of my invention consists in thc combination of 11 screw-feriule witl'x tl1e cross-head, for tl1e donble Purpose of tightening und holding the sa.id cross-head to the handle and provicling a screw f or a thurnbnui s to opera.te the binding-wire also in a new device for holding tho thumb-nut in itsrproper position withln the cblla.r, and an arrangernent by which the binding-wire is made to hold the several arts together.

'lo enable others skillecl in th'e art 170 make und use my invention, I will procee. 110 clesclibe its construction und operation.

I construct my mop-head of casl: und wrought iron, th a.t being the best und chenpest material. T0 prevent rust, &c., it is covered with a. thin coa.ting of copper in the usual way. In tl1e accmpmnying clmwings Figure 1 represen ts a. sicle'elovation, in partial seetion, of my suicl invention.

Figure 2 is a. pla.n vievf of the collm, with the pnrts for holdingythe thumb-nut in position within it.

Figure 3 represents u side elevation of the screw-ferrule.

In the sn.id drawings, A represents the cross; l 1ead. I1: is macle, as shown, with n shank or polnted pi'ojection, B, a.nd a projectlon, H. I is tl1e binding-wire; lt is riveted to the collm D at the points F F. D represents th'e collu-r; K, the screw-ferrule; C, the thunlbnut whlch works over it. EE rcpxesent two pieces which hold tl1e nnl; C'in position within the collar. As will be seen, the tnumb-nutis mmle with two flnnges, P P und J J. The lower flange, J J, is made small pnough to pass tln:ough tl1o said collax, und tlie uppor flange, I P, lange enough to rast upon the top of tl1e sinne, as shown in fig.2 'il1e pieces E E nre mzule so as to slip within o1 into the said fla.nge J J, and zue rivctedin po'sition, as shown (lt F F, also in fig. 2. T0 -keep tl1c crossJ1ead und. screw-ferrule firmljr in poition, und from turning, the small projection H, in the cross-heacl A, is made to fit into a slot, R, in tl1e screw-femgule, a.fter which the pln G is fasten/0d, as slxown in tl1e dmwlng, passing through the screw-ferrnle K, handle and shank B, theroby holding everything firmly in pluce The shzmk B may be rivetcd on 130 tl1e cross-head A, bnt I prefer casting them all in ono piecc.

Havingthus described my said invention witl1 sufiicicnt clemnss to ennblc others skilled in thc art to which it appertains, 1 to which i( is most, nearly connecterl, to makc, construct, und nso tlxd samo, wl 1nt I clulm ans my invention, und desire to sccure by Letters Patent, is

1. The cross-head A. and. sl1a.nk B, in combination with ascrmwferrule, K, proviclcd w ith u slot, R, as zuul for thd purposes substantially clescribed.

2. 'll1e thumb-nut C, in combination wich tl1c purts E E nnd collau' D, snbsnntially ms nn l for thc PIIIPOSCS dcscribod.

3. 'J.l1c employment of tho bin ling-wire, f01' holding thc collar D und parts E E togethcr, us herein shown and set forth.

Witnesses JAMES S ANGSTER, S. M. SANGSTER. 

